circular file

1. 1.

   a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

   Synonymswastepaper basketwaste-paper basketwastebasketwaste basket

   Broadercontainer

Questions about circular file

What does circular file mean?

circular file means "a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish".

What is another word for circular file?

Close synonyms include wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circular file a common word?

circular file is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.